America, Beer “Backed by a strong, anti-corporate ideology, the communities of craft beer drinkers congregate in new environments…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 January 2016 In the wake of America’s national Prohibition, public consumption of alcohol declined to a...
America, Great Britain, Literature “If British children gathered in the glow of the kitchen hearth to hear stories about magic swords and talking bears, American children sat at their mother’s knee listening to tales larded with moral messages…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 January 2016 If Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn were each to represent British versus American children’s...
Alcoholic Drinks, America “People have known since the Stone Age that sugary liquids, given time, have a salutary tendency to ferment, transforming themselves into something like beer or wine” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 January 2016 People have known since the Stone Age that sugary liquids, given time, have a...
America, Jews in America “Jewish Americans have a halakhic obligation to support a wise Syrian refugee immigration policy, but the specifics of what that would be?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 January 2016 Jewish Americans have a halakhic obligation to support a wise policy, but the specifics...
America “Prohibition didn’t seem frivolous at the time…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2016 Prohibition didn’t seem frivolous at the time—if the comparison to abolitionism seems bizarre today,...
America “…the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of the country…was deeply implicated in Southern slavery” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2016 …the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of...
America “Prohibitionism, with its focus on the saloons and the immigrants who populated them, was propelled by no small amount of ethnic nationalism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2016 Prohibition was a profoundly Christian movement, delivering its message in the language of revivalism....
America “When federal Prohibition finally arrived, it was disguised as a program of wartime austerity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 January 2016 When federal Prohibition finally arrived, it was disguised as a program of wartime austerity....
America, Politics in America “…Prohibition was not a farce but a tragedy, and one that has made a substantial contribution to our current miseries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2016 The Prohibition Party, as it was called, never became a major electoral force. But...
Beer, California “Brewing is both a science and an art” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 January 2016 Brewing is both a science and an art. To make an excellent beer, a...